Plant at fl. c. 10–100 cm. tall, mostly glab. Roots several, ± spindle-shaped, on vertical sympodial axis. Stem erect, slender to stout, much exceeding lvs. Basal lvs 2–6, c. 5–20 cm. × 5–15 mm.; lamina narrow-elliptic tapering into petiole of about equal length; stem-bracts 2–4. Spike c. 2–15 cm. × 5–10 mm.; fls ± crowded, almost sessile. Ovary almost glab. to closely glandular-pubescent. Per. 4–7 mm. long, ± cylindric, rose-red to pink except for white labellum. Dorsal sepal ± oblong, slightly concave except at tip; laterals slightly pouched at base, obtuse to subacute. Petals ± oblong, ± adnate to dorsal sepal. Labellum broad and recurved at tip; upper margin ± laciniate and much crisped and irregularly thickened; base sessile, concave, smooth except for 2 prominent lateral calli which fit beneath stigma in undissected fl. Column narrow below stigma; anther obtuse, overtopping stigma; stigma broad and prominent, sts lacking rostellum, us. overtopped by delicate, membr., ± laciniate column-wings.